PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.

Art. I. This society to be called the American Missionary Association.

Art. II. The object of this Association shall be to conduct Christian missionary and educational operations and diffuse a knowledge of the Holy Scriptures in our own and other countries which are destitute of them, or which present open and urgent fields of effort.

Art. III. Members may be constituted for life by the payment of thirty dollars into the treasury of the Association, with the written declaration at the time or times of payment that the sum is to be applied to constitute a designated person a life member; and such membership shall begin sixty days after the payment shall have been completed.

Every church which has within a year contributed to the funds of the Association and every State Conference or Association of such churches may appoint two delegates to the Annual Meeting of the Association; such delegates, duly attested by credentials, shall be members of the Association for the year for which they were thus appointed.

Art. IV. The Annual Meeting of the Association shall be held in the month of October or November, at such time and place as may be designated by the Executive Committee, by notice printed in the official publication of the Association for the preceding month.

Art. V. The officers of the Association shall be a President, five Vice-Presidents, a Corresponding Secretary or Secretaries, a Recording Secretary, a Treasurer, Auditors, and an Executive Committee of fifteen members, all of whom shall be elected by ballot.

At the first Annual Meeting after the adoption of this Constitution, five members of the Executive Committee shall be elected for the term of one year, five for two years and five for three years, and at each subsequent Annual Meeting, five members shall be elected for the full term of three years, and such others as shall be required to fill vacancies.

Art. VI. To the Executive Committee shall belong the collecting and disbursing of funds, the appointing, counseling, sustaining and dismissing of missionaries and agents, and the selection of missionary fields. They shall have authority to fill all vacancies in office occurring between the Annual Meetings; to apply to any Legislature for acts of incorporation, or conferring corporate powers; to make provision when necessary for disabled missionaries and for the widows and children of deceased missionaries, and in general to transact all such business as usually appertains to the Executive Committees of missionary and other benevolent societies. The acts of the Committee shall be subject to the revision of the Annual Meeting.

Five members of the Committee constitute a quorum for transacting business.

Art. VII. No person shall be made an officer of this Association who is not a member of some evangelical church.

Art. VIII. Missionary bodies and churches or individuals may appoint and sustain missionaries of their own, through the agency of the Executive Committee, on terms mutually agreed upon.

Art. IX. No amendment shall be made to this Constitution except by the vote of two-thirds of the members present at an Annual Meeting, the amendment having been approved by the vote of a majority at the previous Annual Meeting.

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ANNUAL MEETING OF THE A. M. A.

The Thirty-seventh Annual Meeting of the American Missionary Association will be held in the Central Congregational Church, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Dr. Behrends’), beginning Tuesday, October 30, at 3 P.M., and closing on the evening of Thursday, November 1.

The sermon will be preached by Rev. John L. Withrow, D.D., of Boston, Mass., Tuesday evening, at 7:30, to be followed by the communion service.

The following persons have promised to take part in the meetings: Rev. E. B. Webb, D.D.; Pres. S. C. Bartlett, D.D.; Rev. Washington Gladden, D.D.; Rev. Wm. Allen Bartlett, D.D.; Rev. Wm. H. Willcox, D.D.; Hon. Alpheus Hardy; Prof. Llewellyn Pratt, D.D.; Prof. Wm. M. Barbour, D.D.; Rev. D. O. Mears, D.D.; Rev. W. H. Ward, D.D.; Rev. Samuel Scoville; Rev. E. W. Bacon; Rev. Wm. S. Palmer, D.D.; Rev. D. K. Flickinger, D.D.; Rev. Geo. M. Boynton; Rev. A. H. Bradford; Rev. T. P. Prudden; Prof. C. G. Fairchild; Rev. Wm. M. Taylor, D.D.; Mr. Yew Fun Tan, from Yale College, 1883; Mr. Wm. Harrison McKinney, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory, from Roanoke College, 1883; Rev. J. C. Price, Salisbury, N.C., Lincoln University, 1879; Rev. A. A. Myers, from the mountain regions of Kentucky.

A meeting of the Bureau of Woman’s Work in connection with this Association will be held Wednesday, at 2 P.M., at which Mrs. W. C. Pond, San Francisco, Mrs. A. L. Riggs, from the Santee Agency, Miss Ida M. Beach, Savannah, Mrs. A. A. Myers, of Kentucky, and others, will be present and take part in the exercises.

RAILWAY AND STEAMBOAT FARES.

New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R.—Round-trip tickets to New York from Springfield, $4.40, Hartford, $3.55; Middletown, $3.55; New Britain, $3.50; Meriden, $2.95; New Haven, $2.35; New London, $4.35; Saybrook, $3.60; Willimantic, $4.65; Bridgeport, $1.75; South Norwalk, $1.35; Stamford, $1.05. Return coupons will not be received for passage unless stamped by Richard M. Montgomery, Secretary, at the meeting.

New Haven & Northampton R. R.—Round-trip tickets to New Haven from North Adams, $4; Westfield, $2.00; Collinsville, $1.30; Farmington, $1; Plainville, 95c.; Southington, 75c.; to which must be added round-trip ticket from New Haven to New York, $2.35. These tickets must also be stamped at the meeting.

Naugatuck R. R.—Round-trip tickets to Bridgeport from Winsted, $2.40; Thomaston, $1.75; Waterbury, $1.34; to which must be added round-trip ticket from Bridgeport to New York, $1.75. These tickets must also be stamped at the meeting.

Housatonic R. R.—Round-trip tickets to Bridgeport from Pittsfield, $4.55; from Great Barrington, $4.35; New Milford, $3.10, Hawleysville, $2.40; to which must be added round-trip ticket from Bridgeport to New York, $1.75. These tickets must also be stamped at the meeting.

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All tickets good from Oct. 29 to Nov. 2.

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The citizens of Brooklyn will cordially welcome to their homes all persons in attendance at the meetings. Those wishing hospitality should forward their applications as early as possible to Richard M. Montgomery, 169 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, N.Y.

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